How To Use Sottish In A Sentence
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He will not, trust me, have to deal in my person with a sottish, dunsical Amphitryon, nor with a silly witless Argus, for all his hundred spectacles, nor yet with the cowardly meacock Acrisius, the simple goose-cap Lycus of Thebes, the doting blockhead Agenor, the phlegmatic pea-goose
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Elsewhere, an army of male admirers, with their expressions of longing for sottish outbursts and fleshy curves in slips, echoes not only Paglia's wonderful 1992 essay on "pre-feminist" Taylor, "Hollywood's Pagan Queen", but the lamentations of the officially flesh-hating Vogue, which now declares that the woman, with all her absurd rocks, furs and white hotpants, is a fashion icon as well as a sex siren.
The strange case of Liz Taylor as a 'real woman' role model | Catherine Bennett
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sottish behavior
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There'd have been no talk of roasted fags or expulsion for sottish behaviour, either.
THE NUMBERS
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The [6533] Parthians of old were so sottish in this kind, they would rather lose a victory, nay lose their own lives, than fight in the night, 'twas against their religion.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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There is nothing so sottish, or foolish, or contradictious in and to itself, as may not be countenanced from teaching parables to be instructive and proving in every parcel or expression that attends them.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts, to see what the issue would be of that babbling strife and contention.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Reprehending the simplicity of some sottish husbands: And discovering the wanton subtilties of some women, to compasse their unlawfull desires
The Decameron
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For this we have been called a sottish, an insatiable, and tumultuous people -- and to punish us for this offence the world has been told we deserve all those horrible calamities which, year after year, since that time have been inflicted on us!
The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed In an Address to the People of England, in Which It Is Proved by Incontrovertible Facts, That the System for Some Years Pursued in That Country, Has Driven It into Its Present Dreadful Situation
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After the spirit of Covetousness has secured the bounties and luxuries of this life, the "sottish" Ahaz (Possessor) turns to the worship of Rimmon (Pomegranate), a god of agriculture and the fit representative of Gluttony.
Milton's Angels
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She sottishly told me,in that morning, that she swilled in the night before.
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She sottishly told me,in that morning, that she swilled in the night before.
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If you would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with you. '
Sole Music
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Nullam virtus respuit staturam, virtue refuseth no stature, and commonly your great vast bodies, and fine features, are sottish, dull, and leaden spirits.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The similitude is explained in the following words, It is a people of no understanding, brutish and sottish, and destitute of the knowledge of God, and that have no relish or savour of divine things, like a withered branch that has no sap in it; and this is at the bottom of all those sins for which God left them desolate, their idolatry first and afterwards their infidelity.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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In 1875 a wag had nicknamed the Monstrumarium, in a fit of sottish wit, “the Beastie Bin,” and the name had stuck.
The Curse of the Wendigo
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The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Father left Alexander to his sottishness and went out of the house, walking the streets until it was over.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS